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Select which amendments to attempt to auto-apply from the Amendment Manager tab. The current status of the amendments (Draft, Submitted, Tabled, Agreed) has no impact on auto-apply; amendments at any stage in their lifecycle can be auto-applied to a bill version.
Click ‘Apply Amendments’ from the Amendment Actions menu, then select whether to ‘Create a new bill version’ or apply to an existing bill version. You can use the latter option to apply additional amendments to an already created amended copy. This gives you more control over the order in which to apply amendments, which can assist with troubleshooting or allow you to apply amendments in batches.
Lawmaker will attempt to apply the selected amendments to the bill version and a green toastie notification will appear on-in the top-right of the screen telling you how many were successful. You can then open the newly created amended version in the Editor.
In the Editor, successfully applied amendments will appear as red and blue tracked changes in the body of the bill, and will have corresponding numbered cards on the right-hand side of the window, in the ‘Inline Amendments’ pane. Amendments which could not be applied will appear in the ‘Review’ pane, with an error message. The Inline Amendments pane allows you to click a card and jump to the applied amendment.
Assuming you are happy with the applied amendments, you can click ‘Accept all’ on the Inline Amendments pane to apply the changes and remove the track change mark-up from the bill version. This will create a clean ‘as amended’ copy of the bill.
You can make further manual edits to the text of this version, before or after you have accepted the applied amendments, if you need to.
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Lawmaker’s auto-apply function helps clerks speed up the process of creating ‘as amended’ versions of bills. It allows a large number of amendments to be applied to a bill version without manual intervention. However, there will always be some amendments which fail to auto-apply for a variety of possible reasondifferent reasons, and will therefore require manual edits to integrate into the bill version.
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We are in the process of fixing the bug which prevents Lawmaker accurately reporting success and failure of auto-applied amendments like these.
Amendment instructions which end with a full-stop
Amendment instructions do not normally end with a full-stop. For example, consider the following amendment, taken from a list of amendments to a real Bill:
Clause 21, page 17, line 33, after “subsection” insert “, and may make consequential amendments of this section”
When auto-applying amendments in Lawmaker, the presence of a full-stop at the very end of the instruction can prevent the amendment from being applied. So the following amendment may fail:
Clause 21, page 17, line 33, after “subsection” insert “, and may make consequential amendments of this section”.
If you notice an extra full-stop at the end of an amendment instruction, it is worth removing it before attempting to auto-apply the amendment. In future Lawmaker versions this strict requirement will be relaxed.
Amendments which insert or leave out a combination of sections/paragraphs and Parts, Chapters, and cross-headings
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